. Manual of the apiary. Bees. 72 MANUAL OF THE APIARY. ligent servant, Frances Burnens, developed so many interest- ing truths, demonstrated the fact of the queen's maternity. This author's work, second edition, published in Edinburgh, Fig. Qtieen Bee, magnified. in 1808, gives a full history of his observations and experiments, and must ever rank with Langstroth as a classic, worthy of study by all. The queen, then, is the mother bee; in other words, a fully developed female. Her ovaries (Fig. 11, a, a) are very large, nearly filling her long abdomen. The tubes already describ
. Manual of the apiary. Bees. 72 MANUAL OF THE APIARY. ligent servant, Frances Burnens, developed so many interest- ing truths, demonstrated the fact of the queen's maternity. This author's work, second edition, published in Edinburgh, Fig. Qtieen Bee, magnified. in 1808, gives a full history of his observations and experiments, and must ever rank with Langstroth as a classic, worthy of study by all. The queen, then, is the mother bee; in other words, a fully developed female. Her ovaries (Fig. 11, a, a) are very large, nearly filling her long abdomen. The tubes already described as composing them are very numerous, while the spermatheca (Fig. 11, e) is plainly visible. This is muscular, receives abundant nerves, and thus, without doubt, may or may not be compressed to force the sperm cells in con- tact with the eggs as they pass by the duct. Leuckart esti- mates that the spermatheca will hold more than 25,000,000 spermatozoa. The possession of the ovaries and attendant organs, is the chief structural peculiarity which marks the queen, as these are the characteristic marks of females among all animals. But she has other peculiarities worthy of mention : She is longer than either drones or workers, being more than seven-eighths of an inch in length, and, with her long tapering abdomen, is not without real grace and beauty. The queen's mouth organs, too, are developed to a less degree than are those of the worker bees. Her jaws (Fig. 21, b) or mandibles. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Cook, Albert John, 1842-1916. Chicago, Ill. , T. G. Newman
Size: 1870px × 1336px
Photo credit: © The Book Worm / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bo, bookcentury1800, bookdecade1880, booksubjectbees, bookyear1880